Tag: Jazz

Foojohn Jazz Club is where I was exposed to Lambrusco, an Italian sparkling wine. It is robust, sweet, sour, and bitter — it got everything like a complex feeling in Jazz music. On the stage, Damon Brown played his trumpet, “Chet Baker’s That Old Feeling. Red was not merely...

Zahili Zamora and Ken Field on compiling a list of Boston-related songs written or made famous by Boston-connected women. Zahili Zamora and Ken Field Jazz Along the Charles Presented by Celebrity Series of Boston DCR’s Charles River Esplanade Saturday, October 7th, 2023 from 2pm-4...

The first known sound recordings were created in the 1850s by French printer and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. The first known piece of motion picture film was a revolving self-portrait of French cameraman Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (better known as Na...

The rhythmic heartbeats of jazz dance have echoed through the corridors of time, adapting, evolving, and shaping the cultural landscape of dance. This transformative journey, rich in history and vibrant in expression, has been passionately preserved and shared through the dedicated efforts of educat...

Chicago is set in Cook County Jail for female inmates in 1924, just four short years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote (Smentkowski, Levy, 2024). — Well, some women, anyway . . . Bob Fosse and John Kander created Chicago base...